From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Aug 2 20: 6:53 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6475D37B400 for ; Fri, 2 Aug 2002 20:06:51 -0700 (PDT) Received: from scaup.mail.pas.earthlink.net (scaup.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.49]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0737843E4A for ; Fri, 2 Aug 2002 20:06:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from parv@pair.com) Received: from sdn-ar-004dcwashp233.dialsprint.net ([206.133.21.249] helo=moo.holy.cow) by scaup.mail.pas.earthlink.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 17apFi-0000WA-00; Fri, 02 Aug 2002 20:06:50 -0700 Received: by moo.holy.cow (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 4A72C50CD6; Fri, 2 Aug 2002 23:09:18 -0400 (EDT) Date: Fri, 2 Aug 2002 23:09:18 -0400 From: parv To: Adam Weinberger Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Why hard, not soft links? Message-ID: <20020803030918.GA58387@moo.holy.cow> Reply-To: f-q Mail-Followup-To: Adam Weinberger , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG References: <200208030344.27552.smazerski@yahoo.co.jp> <20020803014757.GC9210@vectors.cx> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20020803014757.GC9210@vectors.cx> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG in message <20020803014757.GC9210@vectors.cx>, wrote Adam Weinberger thusly... > > does $0 get set to the name of the calling softlink? yes it does... at least in shell scripts & perl programs. -- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message